Decoy swarm has the potential to protect attacking jets with hundreds of drones
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MALDs (missle air launched decoys), for those of you not up on your wargadgets , are a cross between cruise missiles and aerial drones — a hybrid used to protect attacking jets by confusing or distracting the enemy during combat. Various branches of the US military have been using them for years, but now one company’s figured out a way to unleash hundreds of ‘em, creating a veritable drone swarm. Defense contractor Raytheon has developed a system that ejects MALDs from a cargo aircraft, sending clusters of eight missiles into the air, at which point they initiate the standard wing deployment and engine ignition sequence. And , according to Wired , the company is considering putting sensors and warheads inside future MALDs, which would make these swarms more intelligent and, you know, explosive. PR after the break. Continue reading Decoy swarm has the potential to protect attacking jets with hundreds of drones Decoy swarm has the potential to protect attacking jets with hundreds of drones originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Tri-band WiGig in a laptop? Yawnsville. Now, put that 60GHz connection in a high-end smartphone and we’re all ears (and sweaty palms). Panasonic is the first out the gate with a 802.11ad compatible chip for mobile devices and, despite its head-spinning multi-gigabit speeds, the company’s creation draws less that 1W of power. It’ll be sometime before WiGig makes its way into your Droid or iPhone, but when it does you can look forward to wirelessly syncing entire seasons of Good Eats (in 1080p, of course) to your phone in mere minutes. Until then, you’ll just have to make do with the tantalizing PR after the break. Continue reading Panasonic shrinks WiGig for cellphones, sets our hearts a flutter Panasonic shrinks WiGig for cellphones, sets our hearts a flutter originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We’ve already seen the BlackBerry Torch 2 in photos courtesy of Mr. Blurrycam, but a little birdie from Negri Electronics was kind enough to send over a pre-release device for us to get under our own glass for a little photo shoot. Though it has a virtually identical form factor to the original, the Torch 2 bumps the specs in almost every department from the camera to the RAM. Oh, and it’s running the next-gen BB OS 7 — which is really OS 6.1, but we’ll go with it for now. Read on past the break for a full preview of this yet-to-be-announced slider, and some glorious HD video if the beautious shots aren’t enough to whet your BBM-hungry appetites. Gallery: BlackBerry Torch 2 preview! Continue reading BlackBerry Torch 2 preview! (video) BlackBerry Torch 2 preview! (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We’ve already seen the BlackBerry Torch 2 in photos courtesy of Mr. Blurrycam, but a little birdie from Negri Electronics was kind enough to send over a pre-release device for us to get under our own glass for a little photo shoot. Though it has a virtually identical form factor to the original, the Torch 2 bumps the specs in almost every department from the camera to the RAM. Oh, and it’s running the next-gen BB OS 7 — which is really OS 6.1, but we’ll go with it for now. Read on past the break for a full preview of this yet-to-be-announced slider, and some glorious HD video if the beautious shots aren’t enough to whet your BBM-hungry appetites. Gallery: BlackBerry Torch 2 preview! Continue reading BlackBerry Torch 2 preview! (video) BlackBerry Torch 2 preview! (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We’re still waiting for some completely official word on the matter, but it looks like a Sprint exec has let slip the carrier’s launch details for the BlackBerry PlayBook . While the post has since been removed, Sprint Marketing Director Gerald Evans revealed on his personal blog earlier today that the WiFi-only, 16GB version of the tablet will be hitting Sprint stores on Sunday, June 5th for the usual $499.99. Unfortunately, there was no mention of the carrier’s 4G version which, last we heard, was still on track for a summer release . BlackBerry PlayBook headed to Sprint on June 5th for $500? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …j5 Creates a Wormhole, enables keyboard and mouse sharing with just one cable
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There are already plenty of keyboard and mouse sharing solutions out there, but alas, most are not foolproof nor affordable enough for the average Joe. As such, we fell in love with j5 Create’s Wormhole KM Switch and Wormhole Station at Computex . The former, pictured above, is simply a cable sporting a USB dongle on each end; whereas the latter is an aluminum, externally powered expansion dock rod that comes with an intergrated KM switch, two USB 3.0 ports (which requires a USB 3.0 host for full potential, of course), a power button at the end, and card readers for microSD, SD, and MemoryStick. After the one-click setup using the built-in installer, you can set your preferred method to toggle the keyboard and mouse switching: either by clicking the middle mouse button, by clicking a user-defined hot area on the screen, or by simply moving the cursor off one side of the screen. As you’ll see in our hands-on video after the break, the switching was seamless, and we had no problem with drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste across the two PCs. If either the Wormhole KM Switch or the Wormhole Station sounds like your kind of gadget, then keep an eye out for them at Fry’s soon for $29.99 (about $10 cheaper than IOGEAR’s USB Laptop KVM Switch ) and $129, respectively. Additionally, there’ll also be a Mac-compatible KM Switch available next month for $39.99. Gallery: j5 Creates a Wormhole, enables keyboard and mouse sharing with just one cable Continue reading j5 Creates a Wormhole, enables keyboard and mouse sharing with just one cable j5 Creates a Wormhole, enables keyboard and mouse sharing with just one cable originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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BlackBerry fans itching to get your touch on: don’t reach for your wallets just yet. BGR is reporting that RIM’s upcoming Bold 9900 has been delayed until September, which is a bit later than the expected “Summer” release quoted back at BlackBerry World. We know you’re heartbroken, but it looks like you’ll have to live vicariously through our video hands-on until you can pocket one of your own. BlackBerry Bold 9900 delayed until September, IT admins everywhere weep originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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The shuttering of New York’s Chinatown Fair back in March marked the end of an era for the city — a last vestige of a time when social gaming meant more than just logging on to Xbox Live . The arcade experience hasn’t completely disappeared form the metropolitan map, however — in recent years, a new crop of venues have remixed the concept of yesterday’s arcades, places like Brooklyn’s Barcade, a shrine to 80s gaming machines that does brisk business serving spirits to Williamsburg’s 21 and up crowd. Launched in Ridgewood, Queens by game developers Kunal Gupta and Syed Salahuddin, Babycastles takes the re-invention a step further, offering up something between an arcade space and an art gallery. Continue reading Babycastles brings its indie arcade action to The Engadget Show (video) Babycastles brings its indie arcade action to The Engadget Show (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Honeycomb on Oak Trail gets benchmarked on prototype Compal tablet, numbers ensue
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We know that Intel is gunning for ARM with its Oak Trail platform, and indeed there were a few early tablets at Computex following that very path to Honeycomb . The question on everyone’s minds, of course, is how well this dual-core 1.5GHz platform can compare to the Tegra 2 competition. If you believe the results from a suite of tests that tweakers.net ran on a prototype Compal unit, then the answer is “not very well.” On benchmarks like CaffeineMark, Linpak, and Quadrant the platform was largely left in the dust by ARM competition with bigger biceps, but the Oak Trail machine did clean the floor with everyone else on the SunSpider browser benchmark. What does it all mean? Not a heck of a lot at this point, we’re afraid. It’s far too early to be drawing performance conclusions about a platform based on a prototype fresh out of the fabricator, and we have our doubts that these benchmark apps are optimized for the new platform — so don’t give up on ‘ol x86 just yet. Honeycomb on Oak Trail gets benchmarked on prototype Compal tablet, numbers ensue originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Amateur Copenhagen Suborbitals team about to make launch attempt — watch live here
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The “amateur” team from Copenhagen Suborbitals promised that they’d launch a rocket capable of carrying a human into space, and today they’re poised to do just that — minus an actual human, of course. The launch is currently set for 10AM Eastern — head on past the break for the live stream. [Thanks, Michael] Continue reading Amateur Copenhagen Suborbitals team about to make launch attempt — watch live here Amateur Copenhagen Suborbitals team about to make launch attempt — watch live here originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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